--- title: Then he again went to the fence and wept, and the maiden said to him… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then he again went to the fence and wept, and the maiden said to him, "Why dost thou weep?" and he told her all that the she-dragon had bidden him do. " Who acts: Ivan, maiden, thou. 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" **Who acts:** Ivan, maiden, thou · **What happens:** go, weep, say, tell, bid, do · **To what, where:** fence, Ivan, maiden, she dragon · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, maiden, thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg29672:24:91 # text = Then he again went to the fence and wept, and the maiden said to him, "Why dost thou weep?" and he told her all that the she-dragon had bidden him do. " 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 again again ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 20 dost do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nsubj _ _ 22 weep weep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ? ? PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 28 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 iobj _ _ 29 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 36 det:predet _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 bidden bid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 advcl _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Ivan | | | the fence | then; again | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fence=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **weep** | past | Ivan *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the maiden | | Ivan | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **weep** *in a quote* | present · do-support | thou | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Ivan | | maiden | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **bid** | past · perfect · passive | | the she dragon | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **do** | present | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/92/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/24/)